BAFANA JOB
Roy Hodgson costs top dollar
The former England coach was the best-paid manager at the 2016 Euro Championship earning a whopping £3.5m a year
The South African Football Association (Safa) should be prepared to pay in the region of R50m a year if they are to hire former England coach Roy Hodgson as the new Bafana Bafana mentor. If the rumour mill is to be believed‚ Hodgson has become the latest name to be linked to the job vacated by the sacked Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba. But it is not clear if Hodgson‚ whose name has curiously appeared out of nowhere as one of the candidates for the Bafana job‚ would be interested in taking a salary cut. Mashaba was paid R500,000 a month, while the well-travelled Hodgson was the best-paid manager at the 2016 Euro Championship earning a whopping £3.5m a year. His salary put him ahead of the £3.15m earned by Antonio Conte of Italy and the £2.7m earned by Turkey’s Fatih Terim. Mashaba was sacked in December with a year left on his contract‚ which was to run until the end of the World Cup in Russia in July 2018. His dismissal followed a disciplinary hearing that found him guilty of gross miscon...
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